Mediumiuga sinespinis Peris and Ruzzier 2013 (tumbling flower beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae

Full reference: D. Peris and E. Ruzzier. 2013. A new tribe, new genus, and new species of Mordellidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from the Early Cretaceous amber of Spain. Cretaceous Research 45:1-6

Belongs to Mediumiuga according to J. Batelka et al. 2018

See also Peris and Ruzzier 2013

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MCNA 8839, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is PeƱacerrada outcrop I, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Escucha Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at PeƱacerrada outcrop I

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